Waning Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 30% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 24 days old.
The moon rises after midnight to early morning and sets in the afternoon. It is visible in the early morning low to the east.
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Main moon phases of the following lunar cycle.
Moon is passing about ∠15° of ♋ Cancer tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 2 days on 12 September 2047 at 11:18.
Next Full Moon is the Hunter Moon of October 2047 after 19 days on 3 October 2047 at 23:42.
There is low ocean tide on this date. Sun and Moon gravitational forces are not aligned, but meet at big angle, so their combined tidal force is weak.
Lunar disc appears visually 4.7% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1820" and ∠1908".
The Moon is 24 days old and navigating from the second to the final part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 589 of Meeus index or 1542 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 9 hours and 15 minutes and it is 18 minutes longer than the upcoming lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to decrease with the lunar orbit true anomaly getting closer to the value it has at the point of New Moon at perigee (∠0° or ∠360°).
The length of the current synodic month is 3 hours and 29 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 2 hours and 40 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠306.1° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠329.2°.
4 days since point of apogee on 9 September 2047 at 17:06 in ♉ Taurus the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 7 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 21 September 2047 at 15:28 in ♎ Libra.
The Moon is 393 758 km (244 670 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 7 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 361 859 km (224 849 mi).
Moon is in descending node in ♋ Cancer at 10:02 crossing the ecliptic from North to South. Lunar position remains south of if for the upcoming 12 days until Moon's next ascending node later on 27 September 2047 at 01:32 in ♑ Capricorn.
2 days since the last northern standstill on 12 September 2047 at 11:14 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠25.055° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 10 days to face maximum declination of ∠-24.945° at the point of next southern standstill on 25 September 2047 at 10:00 in ♐ Sagittarius.
14 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♑ Capricorn the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.
In 5 days on 19 September 2047 at 18:31 in ♍ Virgo the Moon is going to be in a New Moon geocentric conjunction with the Sun and thus forming the next Sun-Moon-Earth syzygy alignment.
Parts of this Lunar Calendar are based on Planetary Ephemeris Data Courtesy of Fred Espenak, www.Astropixels.com
Moon phase image credit to NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio, svs.gsfc.nasa.gov